If New York Governor Andrew Cuomo requests $30 billion worth of federal aid to help New York rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, as he said he…
Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in…
Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from
developed country data. However, given the…
We report the results of an experiment that was designed to test for discrimination in grading in India. We recruited teachers to grade…
As the wild winds of Hurricane Sandy sent trees toppling, I found myself recalling Mitt Romney’s finest moment as governor. In July 2006,…
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Recently, two entire volumes of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Vol. 621, 2009; and Vol. 627, 2010)…
Primary and secondary school students spend hundreds more hours in each classroom than any observer ever will. But, until now, school…
In one of Africa’s most ambitious investment decisions, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has unveiled a plan to spend $97 billion on…
Did the Nobel Prize Committee choose this year’s economics laureates to influence the growing debate in Boston about how to assign students…
As Beacon Hill prepares to revisit transportation issues early next year, lawmakers should listen to happiness researchers, who have found…